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<h2><a name="Author"></a>Author<img style="width: 152px; height: 200px;"
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<p style="font-weight: bold;">Dragan Nikolic</p>
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<h2><a name="Biography"></a>Short Biography</h2>
<h3>Education</h3>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Diploma in chemical engineering</span>,
University
of
Belgrade,
Serbia<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">PhD</span>, University of
Western Macedonia, Greece<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Work experience<br>
</h3>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">ICN Galenika</span> Belgrade,
Serbia (<span style="font-weight: bold;">2000-2005</span>)<br>
Research Assistant, Institute for R&amp;D, Chemical pilot plant </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aristotle University Thessaloniki</span>,
Thessaloniki,
Greece
(<span style="font-weight: bold;">2005-2008</span>)<br>
Early Stage Researcher, Marie Curie RTN "<span
 style="font-style: italic;">Towards Knowledge-Based Processing Systems
    </span>(<span style="font-style: italic;">PRISM</span>)" </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Trinity College Dublin</span>,
Dublin, Ireland (<span style="font-weight: bold;">2008-2009</span>)<br>
Research Associate, Department of Mechanical &amp; Manufacturing
Engineering </li>
</ul>
<h3>Research interests<br>
</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Computer-Aided techniques for modelling, simulation and
optimization of chemical processing plants</li>
  <li>Computer programming (c/c++, python)<br>
  </li>
  <li>Modelling and optimization of advanced gas separations (hybrid
PSA/Membrane) </li>
  <li>Heat transfer and heat exchanger design<br>
  </li>
  <li>Scale-up of laboratory procedures to full-scale Active
Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) production </li>
  <li>Software development for optimizations of tube count and tube
layout of shell-and-tube heat exchangers</li>
</ul>
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<h3><a name="Publications"></a>Journal publications<br>
</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Giovanoglou, A.; Georgiadis, M.C.; Kikkinides, E.S. <span
 style="font-style: italic;">Generic modeling framework for gas
separations using multibed pressure swing adsorption processes</span>. <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.</span>, 47(9), 3156 (<span
 style="font-weight: bold;">2008</span>). </li>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Kikkinides, E.S.; Georgiadis, M.C. <span
 style="font-style: italic;">Optimization of Multibed Pressure Swing
Adsorption Processes</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ind. Eng. Chem. Res</span>.,
48,
5388
(<span style="font-weight: bold;">2009</span>).</li>
  <li>Krokos C.A.; Nikolic D.; Kikkinides E.S.; Georgiadis M.C.; Stubos
A.K. <span style="font-style: italic;">Modeling and optimization of
multi-tubular metal hydride beds for efficient hydrogen storage</span>.
    <span style="font-weight: bold;">International Journal of Hydrogen
Energy</span>, 34 (22), 9128 (<span style="font-weight: bold;">2009</span>).








  </li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Conferences"></a>Conferences<br>
</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Georgiadis, M.C.; Kikkinides, E.S. M<span
 style="font-style: italic;">odelling and
optimization of multibed pressure swing adsorption flowsheets</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">PRES</span> <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">2006</span>, Prague.</li>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Georgiadis, M.C.; Kikkinides, E.S. <span
 style="font-style: italic;">Modelling and
optimization of multibed Pressure swing adsorption flowsheets</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">ESCAPE 17</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">2007</span>, Bucharest, Romania.</li>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Giovanoglou, A.; Georgiadis, M.C.; Kikkinides, E.S.
S<span style="font-style: italic;">imultaneous production of hydrogen
and carbon dioxide from steam
methane off gas using multibed pressure swing adsorption systems</span>,






    <span style="font-weight: bold;">PRES</span> <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">2007</span>, Ischia, Italy.</li>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Georgiadis, M.C.; Kikkinides, E.S. <span
 style="font-style: italic;">Modeling and
optimization of single and multi-layer pressure swing adsorption
systems</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">ECCE 6</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">2007</span>, Copenhagen, Denmark.</li>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Georgiadis, M.C.; Kikkinides, E.S. A<span
 style="font-style: italic;">n optimization
framework of multibed pressure swing adsorption systems</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">ESCAPE 18</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">2008</span>, Lyon, France. </li>
  <li>Nikolic, D.; Hutchison, M.; Sapin, P.T.; Robinson, A.J. <span
 style="font-style: italic;">Hot spot
targeting with a liquid impinging jet array waterblock</span>, <span
 style="font-weight: bold;">Therminic 2009</span>, Leuven, Belgium. </li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Book_chapters"></a>Book chapters</h3>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-style: italic;">Modeling of Pressure Swing
Adsorption Processes</span> in J. Banga, M. Georgiadis, E.
Pistikopoulos;. Volume 7: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dynamic
Process Modelling</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Process
Systems
Engineering</span> (7 Volume Set), Wiley-VCH, edited by E.
Pistikopoulos, M.
Georgiadis and V. Dua (<span style="font-weight: bold;">2010</span>) </li>
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